If you think that eating a fine dining meal with a woman’s backside firmly planted a few inches from your face is an awkward experience, well, yes it is.

What a difference thirty years makes. Nick gets nostalgic and a bit tiddly on the new old cocktails at 100 Wardour Street

Hotel du Vin doesn’t claim to be offering cutting-edge menus or tapping into the modernity of sharing plates, foams, dirty burgers and drinks in jam jars. Instead, it’s a reliable yet well-executed menu of all the things we love about French food, served with elan.

One of the many great things about Weber BBQs, aside from their remarkable durability, is the range of devices and add-ons available. We tried the rotisserie attachment.

For many it’s the bird song that announces summer’s arrival, for others it’s the smell of BBQ across the gardens. We check out some charcoal that really is hot.

Jo finds MNKY HSE a place where there’s a tasting menu that is packed with creativity and plenty of Latin American authenticity, yet with a light touch.

Mike necks a liquid dinner in Borough Marke

Forget fika, there’s more to Swedish gastronomy than coffee and buns. Nick takes the plane north to dig down into the food-rich region of Jämtland Härjedalen

We were not sure what to expect, to be perfectly honest, when we accepted an invite to dine at Great Guns Social, a former local boozer on a corner of Southwark Bridge road.

Summer has truly arrived at Elephant & Castle food heaven Mercato Metropolitano.